Join the tour, and bring home new ideas for your yard! Discover how individuals use Naturescaping techniques in their own yards. This self-guided tour of six homes in Portland will demonstrate Naturescaping along streams, on typical city lots, newly-planted Naturescaping, and mature Naturescaped yards. You’ll see firsthand how Metro-area gardeners are using native plants and environmentally-friendly gardening techniques to create beautiful landscaping that conserves water, take less maintenance, controls erosion, and provides habitat. The tour is self-drive/bike/walk/bus, drop-in style, Sunday, June 1, 2008, 1:00-4:30pm. Go to www.naturescape.org to register for the tour. There is no charge and all are welcome to sign up.

Join the KBOO Youth Collective as we turn 6 years old for a Birthday Party and Open House. This event will take place May 28th from 5-8pm. We will also be hosting The Underground, our monthly public affairs show that evening, and you will have a chance to see the Youth Collective Members in action, as they produce their radio show.

Girls Yoga Calm Day Camp offering Scholarships. Limited space available and scholarships are first come fist serve basis. Locatied in SE Portland(South Tabor). For more info on day camp visit www.yogayouthcounseling.com.

The National Indian Child Welfare Association (NICWA) is looking for a volunteer for a short-term project, to organize our photo archives. Volunteer should be comfortable working primarily at a computer, collecting photos, scanning photos, and storing them into appropriate subfolders.

There could also be some research for in-kind donors who would donate their services to convert many slides and negatives to digital photo formats.

He/she should be able to take direction, work with others occasionally, and be ready to assist us by “cleaning house” in our photo archives!

Organization Background

Dress for Success Oregon (DFSO) is a non-profit organization that helps low-income women in the greater Portland and Southwest Washington area become self-sufficient. Our services include providing professional attire for job interviews and the workplace, job search assistance, job retention tools, and career development support. We partner with over 80 agencies to foster a positive self-image for low-income women by providing the resources needed to find employment and succeed in the workplace.

Personal Agent(s)

“Offering people resources and education to direct their lives.”

Inclusion, Inc, a nonprofit support services brokerage, is accepting résumés for 2 Personal Agents to join our small but growing team.

We are looking for enthusiastic applicants who not only have the relevant case management experience and bookkeeping skills to perform the job, but who also possess a desire to encourage and facilitate individualized choice, to creatively scout resources and to build community partnerships to best benefit our customers’ quality of life.

ALS Services Coordinator 

Housecall Providers is a non-profit group of physicians and nurse practitioners who deliver medical care to 900 homebound persons in the Portland metro area. We are a growing non-profit looking for an individual who is passionate about our mission to serve as Fund Development Assistant. For more information about Housecall Providers, please go to our website www.housecallproviders.org.

Ditch the dead end job and do something you care about!

Watershed restoration … Leadership development … Gardening and food security … Waste reduction and recycling programs … Environmental education … Volunteer coordination … Wildlife management … Outdoor adventure

Work with the best: As a Northwest Service Academy member you'll work with some of the leading environmental agencies in Oregon & Washington. Learn from and network with top professionals, gain technical skills, take on challenges and develop friendships that will last a lifetime!

Great Perks: $1036/month, $4725 scholarship, health insurance, training opportunities, student loan forbearance & childcare allowance.

OUTSIDE IN - OPEN POSITIONS – 5/23/2008 Please Post Housing Specialist - Open Until Filled Transitional Housing Program for culturally diverse youth 16-21. Includes some weekend, evening and overnight shifts. Work in team with lead responsibilities. Min. quals: 2 yrs experience in the areas of at-risk youth, homeless youth, or shelter/housing programs, and BA/BS in a related field. Spanish language ability strongly preferred. Diversity highly valued. $11.00/hr + full benefits. Resource & Activity Specialist (PAID INTERNSHIP) - Open Until Filled Work with culturally diverse homeless youth in the Day Program.

Northwest Service Academy AmeriCorps

Positions Available

Communications Assistant

Volunteer & Special Projects Coordinator

Our United Villages is a locally-based, private, non-profit community enhancement organization. The ReBuilding Center is a project of Our United Villages. DeConstruction Services and ReFind Furniture are services of The ReBuilding Center. For the Communications Coordinator position, we are seeking a team oriented self-starter with a strong working knowledge of marketing and outreach.

Driver/Warehouse Assistant Position Available

85-year-old nonprofit agency providing emergency food and clothing relief has immediate opening for Warehouse Assistant/Driver. The application deadline is 3pm, May 30, 2008.

PRIMARY DUTIES

• Drive 24’ truck, box truck and van throughout the metropolitan area for various pick-ups and deliveries

• Load and unload vehicles

• Operate warehouse equipment including; forklift, pallet jack, hand truck, bailer, box stapler • Stock freezers and coolers • Conduct routine maintenance throughout the buildings and parking lots • Provide excellent customer service • Provide office support as needed

Learn real-life skills for living a full, healthy life with an ongoing health condition.

The Living well Workshop was developed by Stanford University for people with a variety of ongoing conditions such as: diabetes, asthma, depression, anxiety, cancer, heart disease, pain, arthritis, HIV/AIDS and other health concerns. Activities create confidence around regaining control of your life, gaining relief from symptoms, staying active and enjoying life.

Locations and dates:

Friendly House Community Center, 1737 NW 26th/ Thurman. Starts Wednesday, May 28, 2008 from 11 AM to 1:30 PM for six weeks. The last class will be held on July 2.

Are you an entrepreneur or small business owner? Join Mercy Corps Northwest for a training on what you need to know about keeping and retaining records and creating basic financial statements. Presented by Kevin Minkoff “not your ordinary bean counter” CPA. Wednesday, June 11, from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Please contact Sarah at 503-236-1580 x209 or [email protected] to register.

Stream professionals and teachers are invited to a walking tour and presentation of our brush check dam project here at Tryon Creek State Natural Area. In 2007, volunteers and staff worked together to install check dams in three tributaries of Tryon Creek utilizing living plant material. The goal of these dams is to improve fish habitat by slowing water flows and reducing source sediment contributions. Come join us to learn about this restoration technique and how to implement a similar project in your own urban stream system.

Saturday, June 14, 2008 1-2:30 pm

Free event--pre-registration recommended

Please contact Robin Lewis for more information and to sign-up at 503-636-4398.

www.tryonfriends.org

Help the Leadership and Entrepreneurship High school give back to the East Burnside community through a neighborhood clean up. Join us May 31st from 10 a.m. - 1 p.m. at LÊP High 2044 E. Burnside, Portland OR 97214.

This event is a leadership project planned by a PSU Capstone class in partnership with Starbucks and LÊP High. Come out and support student leaders!

The Refugee Resettlement program at Catholic Charities is currently looking for volunteers who would like to assist Bhutanese and Burmese (from Myanmar) refugee families in their transition into life in Portland. Both groups are coming from extremely difficult conditions in their home countries and countries of refuge and need many good people to walk alongside them here in the U.S.!

Special Opportunities for Certified Medical Assistants Certified Medical Assistants are you looking for an opportunity to volunteer your unique skills to an amazing Urgent Care Clinic for low-income and uninsured patients. The Wallace Medical Concern is a solid non-profit community clinic that loves its volunteers. We are welcoming Medical Assistants to volunteer on Monday and Wednesday evenings at our Gresham Clinic located at 254 NW Burnside Rd.